Monday, June 29, 2015

Art

All Art
is quite useless. -Oscar Wilde


collage  bfk 11x15


collage  bfk rives 11x15

2 comments:

  1. do you remember the "joseph cornell-style" art boxes from william gibson's count zero? they always fascinated me-- your collages remind me of them in some ways:

    "But Marly was lost in the box, in its evocation of impossible distances, of
    loss and yearning. It was somber, gentle, and somehow childlike. It
    contained seven objects.

    The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of
    some large bird. Three archaic circuit boards, faced with mazes of gold. A
    smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A
    finger-length segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist,
    grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument
    that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin-- but the
    thing's face was seared and blackened.

    The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human
    experience."

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    1. Nick...you've got it entirely. Someone asked Robert Motherwell why Joseph Cornell was not famous and he replied, I don't know...I really don't.

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